Top 400 Patricia Briggs Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “I blew out a breath, took a couple steps back, and flopped in one of the battered chairs that line the wall, trying, with my casual pose, to defuse the situation. “Adam, I don’t have a sense to be afraid of Sam in the state he’s in now. I don’t know why you think I’d be smart enough to be afraid of you.”

— Patricia Briggs

252. “You scratch whatever itches you choose,” Charles told her, his voice cold and quiet.“Enjoy yourself. But at the end of the day, you remember that Isaac belongs to my father – and to me. He is necessary to us as you are not. You will leave him unharmed or I will hunt you down and destroy you.”

— Patricia Briggs

253. “When I put magic into a book – whether it’s a wizard or a crusty old werewolf – I’m asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.”

— Patricia Briggs

254. “Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.”

— Patricia Briggs

255. “One, one, two, zero,” I told him through the chattering of my teeth. “It’s my birthday.”

— Patricia Briggs

256. “I hope this means you’ll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.”

— Patricia Briggs

257. “Ours, said Brother Wolf. She is perfect, our soul mate, our anchor, the reason we were created. So that we could be hers.”

— Patricia Briggs

258. “And it was easier to have an unrequited love than to get all fussed and dressed and go out on dates every Saturday with men she was never going to fall in love with. So she’d quit dating, quit dressing up – and on the whole she was happier than she’d been before.”

— Patricia Briggs

259. “Why is it that in all the adventure movies the heroine doesn’t have to get up and go to work?”

— Patricia Briggs

260. “Mercy: “Can’t sleep with a dead man in my closet.” Ben: “You killed someone?” Ben asked with interest.”

— Patricia Briggs

261. “If I ever become a serial murderer, I’ll be very careful to kill people in a pattern that centres around a police station – and not my home or work.”

— Patricia Briggs

262. “Survivors can’t always choose their methods.”

— Patricia Briggs

263. “There are some things that honest, honorable people don’t do to the people they love. They don’t propose marriage on TV. They don’t bring home small cuddly animals without checking with their spouses first. And they don’t tell their ex-husband they love him in front of a crowd that includes their daughter and his current wife right before he goes off to almost certain death. It didn’t help that most of us could tell that she wasn’t lying.”

— Patricia Briggs

264. “Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.”

— Patricia Briggs

265. “I like what you’ve done to your face,” Ben said, tapping his eye.”

— Patricia Briggs

266. “Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth.”

— Patricia Briggs

267. “The problem with deciding to bend the rules was trying to figure out just how far you could bend them.”

— Patricia Briggs

268. “Want to explain to the kid that I’m more a Spike than a Buffy? A villain, not a superhero?”

— Patricia Briggs

269. “Thank you for tearing Tim into small Tim bits.”

— Patricia Briggs

270. “They’re all dead,” Ruth wept, her hands in front of her face as if she could not bear what she’d seen. It reminded me oddly of the weeping angels from Doctor Who.”

— Patricia Briggs

271. “Beauclaire, for his part, sank back in the soft material of the couch as if the thought that it would impede him should he have to move quickly never occurred to him. I’m not afraid of anyone here, his body posture said. Charles’s – relaxed, arms folded loosely, chin slightly tilted – said, You’re boring me; either fight and die – or back off.”

— Patricia Briggs

272. “After I shut the door behind me, I heard Darryl say “of course eating him would work too.”

— Patricia Briggs

273. “Sometimes the most interesting part of the conversation with someone who can’t lie is the questions they don’t answer.”

— Patricia Briggs

274. “When you turn something into stone, you take out the moisture that makes most of the bulk of flesh. A really good mage could turn you into a pebble,” said the really good mage before me.”

— Patricia Briggs

275. “People who say that vampires don’t care about anyone except themselves are mostly right – but sometimes they are very and lethally wrong.”

— Patricia Briggs

276. “So what do we do next, Haunt Huntress?” “That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him. “Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison.”

— Patricia Briggs

277. “Why was it that I was always trying to handle the werewolves instead of the other way around? Maybe because Adam’s other form had big claws and great big teeth.”

— Patricia Briggs

278. “Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn’t possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed – or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.”

— Patricia Briggs

279. “She’d never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door.”

— Patricia Briggs

280. “Dance when the moon sings, and don’t cry about troubles that haven’t yet come.”

— Patricia Briggs

281. “For her he shook like an alcoholic in need of his gin, because he felt she needed to know her options, no matter how his wolf felt about losing his mate. Her knight, indeed.”

— Patricia Briggs

282. “I sat down in the middle. “So,” I said to Darryl, “do you think Korra is going to be as good an avatar as Aang?” “Who’s Aang?” he asked. “You started him with Korra?” I accused Jesse. “That’s not okay. It’s like reading the last chapter of the book first.”

— Patricia Briggs

283. “Never starve a werewolf, or he might ask you to join him for lunch.”

— Patricia Briggs

284. “There’s something really disturbing about finding out how little you really know about something you felt like you were an expert on.”

— Patricia Briggs

285. “That was Bran, quiet and calm until he ripped out your throat.”

— Patricia Briggs

286. “We’ve determined that Ms. Hauptman is a potential threat to the public safety, and we are bringing her in as a murder suspect who has supernatural powers that make her too dangerous to be incarcerated in the usual ways.”

— Patricia Briggs

287. “The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.”

— Patricia Briggs

288. “Only an evil man needs to fear a good man.”

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289. “But you can’t marry someone to fix him, even if you love them. And I didn’t love Samuel the way a woman should love her mate, the way I loved Adam. Samuel didn’t love me that way either. Close, but not quite. And except in horseshoes and hand grenades, close doesn’t count.”

— Patricia Briggs

290. “Most of the pack would rather have Darryl mad at them than Auriele.”

— Patricia Briggs

291. “Zee? Are you all right?” The whole car rose about ten inches off the jacks, knocking them over on their sides, and shook like an epileptic. A wave of magic rose from the Buick, and I backed away, one hand locked in Gabriel’s shirt so he came with me as the car returned all the way to the ground with a bang of tires on pavement and the squeak of protesting shocks. “I feel better now,” said Zee in a very nasty tone. “I would be even happier if I could hang the last mechanic who worked on it.”

— Patricia Briggs

292. “Trust you to bring a gun to a fistfight.”

— Patricia Briggs

293. “I see your fear, they told her, but no harm will come to you by me.”

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294. “Coyote had told me once that changes were neither good nor bad – but brought with them some of both.”

— Patricia Briggs

295. “When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.”

— Patricia Briggs

296. “It comes with being a teenager – you inspire violence in the hearts of those who love you. It mostly goes away when you hit twenty.”

— Patricia Briggs

297. “We’re the good guys. That we’re scary doesn’t mean we’re the villains.”

— Patricia Briggs

298. “I’ve never heard you swear before,” said Jesse, sounding a little better. “At least not like that.” “Power words. Without which mechanics the world over would be lost.”

— Patricia Briggs

299. “Three women bonding over household chores – my mother would be pleased if she could see us. That thought hardened my resolve that next week, some of the men would do cleanup. It would be good for them to expand their skill set.”

— Patricia Briggs

300. “Silver was too hard to be good ammunition.”

— Patricia Briggs